The Kyoto Bubble Era: It started with selling off hundreds of millions of property - Chapter 620

c595 Meeting Soros

It was quite awkward for former best friends to meet under such circumstances.

Kobayashi Kyoko is no longer the timid little bank teller she once was, and was harassed by a gangster to the point where her life was unsustainable. Standing opposite her, Fujiwara Norika is no longer the one who follows Kitahara Sosuke all day long. New members who don’t understand much.

From 1989 to 1992, in less than three years, they all changed, becoming more mature, more intellectual, and more scheming.

“Kyoko, long time no see.” Kitahara Sosuke was not too embarrassed. The relationship between him and his women was very harmonious, and they gradually became aware of each other’s existence.

Fujiwara Norika and Kobayashi Kyoko looked at each other and smiled, and the awkward atmosphere immediately dissipated.

The two hugged each other. They were best friends who had not seen each other for a long time. They had so many private things to say. Seeing how harmonious they were, Kitahara Sosuke felt warm in his heart.

The three of them walked back to the car together. This time Kitahara Sosuke’s arrival in London was of great importance. Kobayashi Kyoko did not dare to let others discover it prematurely, so the driver did not notify her. She drove the car to pick her up.

“Go back to the hotel first. Have you made an appointment for me, Kyoko?” Kitahara Sosuke asked with a smile.

He was sitting in the passenger seat, and Norika Fujiwara was in the back row, with her hands on the backrests of the two front seats, her exquisite body leaning forward slightly, and looking at them with a smile.

“Well, Brother Aosuke, I have put a lot of effort into asking him out.” Kobayashi Kyoko winked at him as if she was taking credit, and she was very charming, “What are you going to reward me with?”

“I suggest rewarding Kyoko with a child! Haha!” Fujiwara Norika joked on the sidelines.

“Then Norika is not allowed to be left behind! In a few months, sister Rin’s child will be born. Our Kitahara family’s first child is here. We can’t fall behind.” Kobayashi Kyoko counterattacked with a smile.

The three of them joked with each other for a while, and then brought the topic back to the goal of this trip to London.

“Thanks to letting you come to London in advance, the turmoil in foreign exchange came earlier than I expected.” Sosuke Kitahara said with emotion. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, his focus has been on Japan, how to deal with the economic crisis and the financial industry. To fight against the six major consortiums and their mortal enemies, he also laid the foundation of the Beihara Consortium and eliminated the enemies one by one.

At the same time, the Asian financial crisis of 1997 was also brewing on his chessboard for a long time.

He had been preparing since 1992. Logically speaking, it should be very safe, but the fact is that others moved faster than him.

While talking with Kyoko Kobayashi and the others, the full picture of the 1997 Asian financial crisis gradually emerged in Sosuke Kitahara’s mind.

On July 2, 1997, the Asian financial crisis swept through Thailand, and then affected Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and China with lightning speed.

The currencies of Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and other countries have depreciated sharply, which has also caused sharp declines in most major stock markets in Asia.

The financial turmoil has impacted foreign trade companies in various Asian countries, causing the collapse of many large Asian companies, causing workers to lose their jobs, and causing society to enter a period of economic depression.

In one fell swoop, it broke the rapid economic development in Asia.

Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea are the countries most affected by the financial crisis.

Later, when analyzing the financial crisis of the century, experts used to compare it with the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, saying that this disaster was deliberately caused by Western countries in order to curb the development of some developed countries in Asia and prevent them from letting go. They have a chance to overtake the Western powers.

In his previous life, Kitahara Sosuke became a billionaire step by step and had a very powerful think tank. He also deliberately used this disaster as important review data for the think tank people to re-analyze.

The whole financial crisis started when Soros targeted the Thai baht and prepared to make huge profits by shorting the baht.

The principle of shorting the Thai baht is very simple. Taking advantage of Thailand’s high deposit interest rate policy to attract foreign investment during the period of rapid economic development, coupled with conditions such as the expansion of the domestic real estate bubble, first raise the exchange rate of the Thai baht against the US dollar, and then sell in large quantities. Just go short and earn the interest difference in the end.

But how easy is it to be short a country’s currency?

Thailand’s domestic consortiums, governments and financial institutions are not vegetarians.

If you want to collapse a country’s economy, then you must be prepared to fight against that country’s economy.

In history, what puzzles Kitahara Sosuke the most is how Soros raised such a large amount of money 97 years ago and had the confidence to dare to fight the Thai government?

Even if he had saved a huge sum of money through harvesting Japan and the Gulf War, it was far from enough to deal with Thailand.

Yes, Soros is the most important business partner that Sosuke Kitahara wants to meet when he comes to London on this trip.

At this time, his reputation in the international business world is not inferior to that of the top few, and he is vaguely known as the number one person in Japan. No one will refuse to join forces with such a giant in the business world.

Soros was actually overjoyed when he heard that Kitahara Sosuke was looking for him. However, due to the cunning nature of a businessman, he rejected Kobayashi Kyoko’s invitations several times. On the grounds that he had important business affairs in the United States, he never wanted to be with her. Meet.

It was only now that Kitahara Sosuke said that he could come to London in person that he reluctantly agreed to this matter.

Speaking of this, Kobayashi Kyoko was very angry.

Could it be that what he has done in London in recent years cannot catch the eyes of this American financial tycoon?

“I think it’s not that he doesn’t want to meet you, but he’s afraid that Brother Sosuke has some bad ideas.” Norika Fujiwara pursed her lips and snickered.

The name Kitahara Sosuke is well-known in the world. In Japan, he defeated Chino Ryu, the Abe family, and the Takeshita family, and defeated super conglomerates such as Sumitomo and Mitsubishi. Now he controls the economic trend. Overseas, he has become Japan’s only overseas conglomerate. Unimpeded access to foreign-invested enterprises.

I bought shares of Microsoft some time ago and I have great ambitions to enter the technology industry. Now that such a person suddenly comes to me, no one will let down their guard.

“It’s normal to be wary of me, but in this action, I believe that without my assistance, he would not be able to reap the real huge benefits. When negotiating, he must hold the other party tightly in his hands.”

Kithara Sosuke smiled and didn’t say much.

The limited-edition Mercedes-Benz arrived at the hotel that Kobayashi Kyoko had booked. The three of them followed the waiter to the tenth floor. The huge banquet hall was empty except for an elderly man sitting there.

“Hello, Mr. Soros.” Kitahara Sosuke smiled and walked over.